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Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

John Maynard Keynes

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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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Bank Problem Wealth Yourself
The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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Disgusting Love Money Possession Recognition
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Belief Benefit Capital Man Nasty Reason Work
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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Gold History International Method Standard
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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Consumer Purpose Satisfaction
Ideas shape the course of history.
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Course History Ideas Shape
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Fade Market Yourself
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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Action Discussion Origin Public Social
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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Average Believe Discover Interest Opinion
I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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Advantage Greatness Impression Scarce Social Stock
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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Hands History Save Society True
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Enjoyment Enough Labor Poster Round
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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Course Exhaust Focus Run
It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conclusion Drawing Economics Mindset Technique
The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.
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Attractive General Ground Investment Opinion Principle
The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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Chaos Help Invention Man System World

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